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    Cover of It Happened in Italy: Untold Stories of How the People of Italy Defied the Horrors of the Holocaust
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    It Hap­pened in Italy: Untold Sto­ries of How the Peo­ple of Italy Defied the Hor­rors of the Holocaust
    Elizabeth Bettina
    Cover of We are Going to Pick Potatoes: Norway and the Holocaust, the Untold Story
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    We are Going to Pick Pota­toes: Nor­way and the Holo­caust, the Untold Story
    Irene Levin Berman
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    Life as a Visitor
    Angella M. Nazarian
    Cover of The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership
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    The Prime Min­is­ters: An Inti­mate Nar­ra­tive of Israeli Leadership
    Yehuda Avner; Martin Gilbert, intro.
    Cover of Surviving the Angel of Death
    Chil­dren’s
    Sur­viv­ing the Angel of Death
    Eva Mozes Kor and Lisa Rojany Buccieri
    Cover of Arnold Daghani's Memories of Mikhailowka: The Illustrated Diary of a Slave Labour Camp Survivor
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    Arnold Daghani’s Mem­o­ries of Mikhailowka: The Illus­trat­ed Diary of a Slave Labour Camp Survivor
    Deborah Schultz and Edward Timms, eds.
    Cover of The Center of the Universe: A Memoir
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    The Cen­ter of the Uni­verse: A Memoir
    Nancy Bachrach
    Cover of Remember Us: My Journey From the Shtetl Through the Holocaust
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    Remem­ber Us: My Jour­ney From the Shtetl Through the Holocaust
    Martin Small and Vic Shayne
    Cover of I Have My Mother's Eyes: A Holocaust Memoir Across Generations
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    I Have My Moth­er’s Eyes: A Holo­caust Mem­oir Across Generations
    Barbara Ruth Bluman
    Cover of One Step Ahead of Hitler: A Jewish Child's Journey Through France
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    One Step Ahead of Hitler: A Jew­ish Child’s Jour­ney Through France
    Fred Gross
    Cover of Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn't Stop Praying (Among Other Things)
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    Amen, Amen, Amen: Mem­oir of a Girl Who Could­n’t Stop Pray­ing (Among Oth­er Things)
    Abby Sher
    Cover of Danger Pay: Memoir of a Photojournalist in the Middle East, 1984-1994
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    Dan­ger Pay: Mem­oir of a Pho­to­jour­nal­ist in the Mid­dle East, 1984 – 1994
    Carol Spencer Mitchell; Ellen Spencer Susman, ed.
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    A Ship in the Har­bor: Moth­er and Me, Book II
    Julian Padowicz
    Cover of Of Exile and Music: A 20th Century Life
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    Of Exile and Music: A 20th Cen­tu­ry Life
    Eva Mayer Schay
    Cover of A Promise at Sobibor: A Jewish Boy's Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland
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    A Promise at Sobi­bor: A Jew­ish Boy’s Sto­ry of Revolt and Sur­vival in Nazi-Occu­pied Poland
    Philip Bialowitz with Joseph Bialowitz
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    Becom­ing Alice: A Memoir
    Alice Rene
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